System timer
The time module in python provides various methods and functions related to time.
Elapsed Seconds
The time.time() method returns the current CPU time in seconds (the time since the start of the epoch which is system dependant, but its some date in the past).
import time
system_seconds = round(time.time()) #round() because a floating point number is returned wheras we want an integerElapsed milliseconds
Because the time.time() method returns a floating point second value, all we need to do is multiply it by 1000 and round it off and we have elapsed milliseconds:
system_milliseconds = round(time.time() * 1000)
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